Routledge Research in Journalism
About the Book Series
This series is our home for innovative research in journalism. It includes monographs and edited collections that provide insight into a field that faces the challenges of an ever-evolving news and media environment.
To submit a proposal for this series, please contact:
Suzanne Richardson, Commissioning Editor for Media, Cultural and Communication Studies
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Journalism and the Philosophy of Truth: Beyond Objectivity and Balance
1st Edition
By Jesse Owen Hearns-Branaman
April 27, 2018
This book bridges a gap between discussions about truth, human understanding, and epistemology in philosophical circles, and debates about objectivity, bias, and truth in journalism. It examines four major philosophical theories in easy to understand terms while maintaining a critical insight which...
Audience Feedback in the News Media
1st Edition
By Bill Reader
February 05, 2018
As long as there has been news media, there has been audience feedback. This book provides the first definitive history of the evolution of audience feedback, from the early newsbooks of the 16th century to the rough-and-tumble online forums of the modern age. In addition to tracing the historical ...
Foreign Correspondents and International Newsgathering: The Role of Fixers
1st Edition
By Colleen Murrell
February 05, 2018
This book reveals that 'fixers'—local experts on whom foreign correspondents rely—play a much more significant role in international television newsgathering than has been documented or understood. Murrell explores the frames though which international reporting has traditionally been analysed and ...
Profile Pieces: Journalism and the 'Human Interest' Bias
1st Edition
Edited
By Sue Joseph, Richard Lance Keeble
January 12, 2018
This book examines the history, theory and journalistic practice of profile writing. Profiles, and the practice of writing them, are of increasing interest to scholars of journalism because conflicts between the interviewer and the subject exemplify the changing nature of journalism itself. While ...
Social Media at BBC News: The Re-Making of Crisis Reporting
1st Edition
By Valerie Belair-Gagnon
November 24, 2017
Since the emergence of social media in the journalistic landscape, the BBC has sought to produce reporting more connected to its audience while retaining its authority as a public broadcaster in crisis reporting. Using empirical analysis of crisis news production at the BBC, this book shows that ...
Journalism and Eyewitness Images: Digital Media, Participation, and Conflict
1st Edition
By Mette Mortensen
November 22, 2017
Building on the vast research conducted on war and media since the 1970s, scholars are now studying the digital transformation of the production of news. Little scholarly attention has been paid, however, to non-professional, eyewitness visuals, even though this genre holds a still greater bearing ...
Mindful Journalism and News Ethics in the Digital Era: A Buddhist Approach
1st Edition
Edited
By Shelton A. Gunaratne, Mark Pearson, Sugath Senarath
June 16, 2017
This book aims to be the first comprehensive exposition of "mindful journalism"—drawn from core Buddhist ethical principles—as a fresh approach to journalism ethics. It suggests that Buddhist mindfulness strategies can be applied purposively in journalism to add clarity, fairness and equity to news...
Digital Media and Reporting Conflict: Blogging and the BBC’s Coverage of War and Terrorism
1st Edition
By Daniel Bennett
November 08, 2016
This book explores the impact of new forms of online reporting on the BBC’s coverage of war and terrorism. Informed by the views of over 100 BBC staff at all levels of the corporation, Bennett captures journalists’ shifting attitudes towards blogs and internet sources used to cover wars and other ...
A Global Standard for Reporting Conflict
1st Edition
By Jake Lynch
August 24, 2016
A Global Standard for Reporting Conflict constructs an argument from first principles to identify what constitutes good journalism. It explores and synthesises key concepts from political and communication theory to delineate the role of journalism in public spheres. And it shows how these concepts...
The Future of Quality News Journalism: A Cross-Continental Analysis
1st Edition
Edited
By Peter Anderson, Michael Williams, George Ogola
January 29, 2016
In the face of the continuously changing challenges of the digital age, it is difficult for quality news journalism to survive on any significant scale if a means for adequately funding it is not available. This new study, a follow-up to 2007’s The Future of Journalism in the Advanced Democracies, ...
International News in the Digital Age: East-West Perceptions of A New World Order
1st Edition
Edited
By Judith Clarke, Michael Bromley
June 19, 2014
The new research presented in this volume suggests that general perceptions (cultural, psychological, geographical), allied to the customs and values of journalism, and underpinned by the uses of technology, significantly shape international news. This gives rise to a blend of the old and the new; ...
Network Journalism: Journalistic Practice in Interactive Spheres
1st Edition
By Ansgard Heinrich
June 19, 2014
Drawing on current theoretical debates in journalism studies, and grounded in empirical research, Heinrich here analyzes the interplay between journalistic practice and processes of globalization and digitalization. She argues that a new kind of journalism is emerging, characterized by an ...